scholarly journals Temporalities of Transition: Trans- temporal Femininity in a Human Musical Automaton

Somatechnics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Sundén
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Body ◽  
Transgender Studies ◽  
Temporal Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Queer Temporality ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This article takes as its point of departure the social media presence of a human musical automaton called Rabbit. As part of the US-based band Steam Powered Giraffe, Rabbit is performed by Bunny Bennett, who recently came out as a transgender woman. As a result of this shift, Rabbit is being transformed from a male automaton into a transgender female robot. The news of the transformation hit like a bomb in the emotionally invested fan base. The story of the transitioning robot is an intimate coming together of technologies, imagination, and transgender embodiment. It is a story that deserves scholarly attention for two reasons: This case offers ways of re-casting the discussion in transgender studies within a post-humanist framework of somatechnics. Secondly, it is a case which foregrounds an understanding of gender as a question of time. In focusing on transition as a continuous, open-ended process, gender is primarily understood as a temporal form which cuts or vibrates through the body in highly material, embodied ways. The domain of queer temporality is rather densely theorised, but what about trans- temporality? If queer temporality first and foremost deals with sexuality and time, what would it mean to shift the focus to gender? Drawing on Gilles Deleuze on time, this article is a contribution to the field of transgender studies on the question of trans- temporality in a technological vein.

scholarly journals If You See Something, Say Something: Lateral Surveillance and the Uses of Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Community Based ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Neighborhood Watch ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

The US Department of Homeland Security’s new “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign displays a renewed drive to redistribute surveillance responsibilities to the public. Using this campaign as its point of departure, this article examines the relationship between conditions of sovereign governance and public lateral surveillance campaigns. As the police and other sovereign institutions have receded from their traditional public responsibilities, many surveillance functions have been assumed by the lay population via neighborhood watch and other community-based programs. Comparing this development with the policing functions of lateral surveillance during the Norman Conquest, this article provides a historically grounded analysis of the potential for this responsibilization to fracture the social by transforming communal bonds into technologies of surveillance power.

Influence of cultural and educational tours to the condition of the tourists

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Татьяна Третьякова ◽  
Tatyana Tretyakova ◽  
Анатолий Меньщиков ◽  
Anatoliy Menshchikov
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Premature Aging ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Correct Program

The article presents the author’s concept of the influence of the cultural and educational tours on emotional and physical state of tourists; it explains the new direction of scientific research as “Cultural tourism and human health”. The hypothesis of the study lies in the assumption about the positive impact of appropriate conditions of cultural and educational tours on human health: the condition of the tourists in terms of cultural and educational tours to various regions of Russia will demonstrate positive dynamics under condition of the correct program of tourist services, including dosed excursions, organization of optimal functional food, comfortable accommodation and quality of excursions that enhance the resilience of the body, restoring vitality and health. The relevance of the study is due to the following factors: 1) the worsening of the social problems of contemporary life, associated with unsustainable way of life that undermines the protective powers of man, dooming him to premature aging and disease; 2) the need to search for new meanings and ideas for the development of tourist offers in domestic tourism, especially in conditions of economic pressure by the EU and the US on Russia. The aim of this study was to identify changes of state to visit in terms of cultural and educational tours to develop a physiologically-based design system of cultural and educational tours. The study is focused on indicators of emotional state and hemodynamics (systolic, diastolic arterial pressure and heart rate). Pilot measurements which were made during the experiment, show that in the context of cultural tourism in the body of the tourists there are some state changes that need to be checked, scientific instruments/ conditions, criteria and indicators to be determined, a model of ergonomic tour and recommendations for the design of programs of tourist services to be developed. The results of the study allowed us to determine a new direction of scientific research – “Cultural tourism and human health”.

scholarly journals Test for monetary measures of the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB): Experiences and lessons in the age of the coronavirus crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Boris Siljković ◽  
Nedeljka Dedović ◽  
Mihailo Dedović
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Federal Reserve Bank ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

Coronavirus crisis from 2020 in USA is a mixture of financial and economic crisis that happened in 1929-33 and 2007-09. The body of work is permeated with attitudes in regards to the coronavirus crisis from 2020 and previous financial crisis from 2007 to 2009 by the world renowned economists and Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Pol Krugman and former presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke, Alen Greenspan and others. The US Federal Reserve Bank opted with a relaxed approach to the monetary politics during the coronavirus crisis - a new-old approach that they picked many times before. Current coronavirus crisis measures to the monetary politics in USA on one side will contribute to deflation while on the other side it will grow consumption and production with delay until 2021. Because of the social distancing during the coronavirus crisis, new problems emerged like the economic distancing of the USA economy, enormous debts to FRB on all levels because of emission of securities, bonds, mortgage and other form of securities which caused growth of activity of the top notch monetary institution in USA.

scholarly journals Fold over fold: Musikk og filosofi som transformativ praksis

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Torbjørn Eftestøl
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Latent Potential ◽  
Point Of Departure

By taking as a point of departure quotations from the pianist Alfred Brendel, the composer Helmut Lachenmann and the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, I discuss music and philosophy as transformative practices. I first develop some of the implications in what Brendel, Lachenmann and Deleuze say, and show how it is possible to find connections between these characterizations of what music and listening involve. Based on this, I argue that they all point to a potential that musical practice harbors with regard to an expansion of cognition and consciousness. I then briefly present Hadot’s work on philosophy as a way of life and Deleuze’s conception of thinking as movement on the plane of immanence. On this background I argue that both music and thinking share a common ground, and that both can bring about an encounter with and elaboration of intensive forces. This experience, if cultivated and researched, can release latent potential in human consciousness and transform embodied cognition to what Deleuze and Guattari call “the body without organs”.

Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary J. Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Social

The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the body are juxtaposed with conceptualisations of health and wellness entirely foreign to them, embedded as the former are in assumptions about Cartesian duality and the superiority of scientific method – itself often conceived of as floating (mysteriously) free from its own processes of enculturation and their attendant limits. In this respect my work joins Volker Scheid’s, in this volume, in using the capacity of critical medical humanities to reassert the cultural specificity of what we have come to know as contemporary biomedicine, often assumed to be

A body without a head

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Chavoshian ◽  
Sophia Park
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Spirituality ◽  
Passive Condition ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Logical Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminine Sexuality ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Body Theory

Along with the recent development of various theories of the body, Lacan’s body theory aligns with postmodern thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Maurice Merlot-Ponti, who consider body social not biological. Lacan emphasizes the body of the Real, the passive condition of the body in terms of formation, identity, and understanding. Then, this condition of body shapes further in the condition of bodies of women and laborers under patriarchy and capitalism, respectively. Lacan’s ‘not all’ position, which comes from the logical square, allows women to question patriarchy’s system and alternatives of sexual identities. Lacan’s approach to feminine sexuality can be applied to women’s spirituality, emphasizing multiple narratives of body and sexual identities, including gender roles. In the social discernment and analysis in the liberation theology, we can employ the capitalist discourse, which provides a tool to understand how people are manipulated by late capitalist society, not knowing it. Lacan’s theory of ‘a body without a head’ reflects the current condition of the human body, which manifests lack, yet including some possibilities for transforming society.

Myriad Aspects of Secular Thinking on Malayali Cuisine

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206
Author(s):  
SAJITHA M
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civilized Society

Food is one of the main requirements of human being. It is flattering for the preservation of wellbeing and nourishment of the body.  The food of a society exposes its custom, prosperity, status, habits as well as it help to develop a culture. Food is one of the most important social indicators of a society. History of food carries a dynamic character in the socio- economic, political, and cultural realm of a society. The food is one of the obligatory components in our daily life. It occupied an obvious atmosphere for the augmentation of healthy life and anticipation against the diseases.  The food also shows a significant character in establishing cultural distinctiveness, and it reflects who we are. Food also reflected as the symbol of individuality, generosity, social status and religious believes etc in a civilized society. Food is not a discriminating aspect. It is the part of a culture, habits, addiction, and identity of a civilization.Food plays a symbolic role in the social activities the world over. It’s a universal sign of hospitality.[1]

Körpertechniken

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erhard Schüttpelz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Social

The contribution re-establishes Marcel Mauss's concept of body functional techniques: the social-anthropological basis, the theoretical technical position and the systematic programming of this term. According to Mauss, modern body functional techniques and their media inventions can be interpreted in different ways: as strategies for the reduction of the body and as a project of a reciprocal, psychosomatic, ritualistic and medial intensification.

The Social Media Presence of Non-profit Organizations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Lucky ◽  
Dinesh Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
The Social ◽  
Powerful Knowledge ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Social media technologies have the potential to be powerful knowledge sharing and community building tools for both corporate and non-profit interests. This pilot study explores the social media presence of a group of forty-six Alberta-based non-profit organizations (NPOs) in this information rich space. In this paper we look at the pattern of presence of NPOs using social media and relationships with staffing structures.Les médias sociaux ont la capacité d’être de puissants outils de partage de la connaissance et de rassemblement communautaire pour les organisations à but lucratif et sans but lucratif. Cette étude pilote explore la présence dans les médias sociaux d’un groupe de quarante-six organisations sans but lucratif (OSBL) albertaines dans cet environnement riche en information. La communication portera sur les modèles de présence des OSBL dans les médias sociaux et les liens avec les structures organisationnelles.

Different Resources, Different Conflicts? The Subnational Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Crime in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature focusing on the subnational level of armed conflict behavior. It also illustrates how the social and economic context of these resources can operate as deterrents or as drivers of violence. The book thus provides important lessons for policymakers and scholars alike: Just as resources have been linked to outbreaks and transformations of violence, peacebuilding too needs to take into account their impacts, legacies, and potential

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